Comics vs. prisons
Posted September 11, 2005 by in Events
Several artists who contributed to the Wobblies book are hosting a slide show/discussion/book party for the Real Cost of Prisons Project:
The creators of three comic books about the effects of mass incarceration will show slides and discuss their work, along with activists who are using the comics to educate and organize for less reliance on prisons and more just policies and practices.After 30 years of the "War on Drugs" and tough-on-crime laws, America's prison population has skyrocketed to the highest in the world. Lois Ahrens, director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, collaborated with Sabrina Jones, Kevin Pyle and Susan Willmarth to create three 20-page comic books,"Prisoners of the War on Drugs," "Prison Town: Paying the Price," and "Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children," which are distributed to activists and educators. Requests pour in, hand-written from inside prisons, or emailed from lobbyists and family support groups.
LOIS AHRENS will discuss her choice of comics as an organizing tool. Artists SABINA JONES and KEVIN PYLE will project images and read from the comics. CHRISTINA VOIGHT will speak from her perspective as someone who has survived being incarcerated and is now doing her doctoral work on the related issues of women and children of incarceration.
@ Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401, NYC
Between Houston and Prince St.
Monday, September 19, 2005, 6:30pm
Free Admission
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